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(Creating Strings): Null strings from concat not unique.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:08:08 +0000
parents 1f62cc014b19
children f1fcb6e1fb24
files doc/lispref/strings.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Wed Oct 31 03:19:56 2007 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi	Wed Oct 31 04:08:08 2007 +0000
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@
 
 @noindent
 The @code{concat} function always constructs a new string that is
-not @code{eq} to any existing string.
+not @code{eq} to any existing string, except when the result is empty
+(since empty strings are canonicalized to save space).
 
 In Emacs versions before 21, when an argument was an integer (not a
 sequence of integers), it was converted to a string of digits making up